president. what do you think? it s pretty obvious something he was not eager to do, given how long he waited to do it, the timing of doing it on a summer friday afternoon. but you can also tell this was something he sincerely wanted to say, to talk about race, as it relates to this crime or not this crime but this trial, to talk about race in this setting, is something that obviously this was an intro respective, sometimes a little rambling but obviously heartfelt from the president. it is risky. he was under pressure from some on his left, the congressional black caucus and others, to come out and be stronger on this point and make it more implicitly about race. he did that today. there is risk in that. it s something he obviously felt like he needed to do. when the mother of trayvon martin says, you know, this is not about race, when the
protesting what went on. some of those protests and demonstrations became incredibly violent. doesn t the president now run the risk that he is going to provoke even more demonstrati demonstrations, and let s hope not, but potential violence? he said explicitly that these demonstrations that turn violent d dishonor trayvon martin s memory and his family. that may be lost on the people who are now potentially going to hit the streets. i m saying as matter of politics, i think he said it quite explicitly that s not acceptable behavior. but to your earlier point about stand your go around, it did have nothing to do with this case. it was not introduced by the defend and not introduced by the prosecution as an issue. i think that what we re seeing there is attorney general holder and president obama unlikely to be able to find any evidence of racism that would justify a civil case against george
much productive dialogue that came afterwards. i think that s why he says he s not now in favor of that kind of public airing of this whole complaint. i just wanted to say in response to what you said earlier, i m not sure that he was indicting the jury or the process by saying if trayvon martin had been white i think what he was saying was he believed that once zimmerman saw trayvon martin was a black kid wearing that hoodie, that it fit a lot of stereotypes of black male youth as suspect, if not criminal, and played into the high number of convictions of black or violence crime. yujuan, trayvon martin s own mother said this is not about race. even the prosecutor, in his rebuttal closing argument, looked those jurors square in the eye and said this case has nothing to do with race. and yet the president suggested
prevent any kind of engagement with law enforcement or the criminal justice system whatsoever. so i think that he made some good points about training law enforcement. he talked about a program in chicago that had worked. he also asked for some soul searching. i think a lot of us i ve done some soul searching. i m not a person who has mentored children of any race or color. perhaps i could do better in that regard. perhaps many of us can do better in that regard to kind of, you know, prevent this kind of engagement with law enforcement all together. one of the things the president said, robert, that if race were reversed, and trayvon martin would have been white and your brother not, that the outcome and the aftermath of this case white have been different. is that part of the soul searching your brother is doing now? i don t know. i don t know that that s what george is doing. i think that we are where we are today. we can speculate a lot about what would have been or could
fox news alert on a very busy afternoon at the white house. to say the least, the president surprising reporters at today s briefs by making some unannounced and extended remarks on death of trayvon martin. moments before that we heard reports members of the congressional black caucus are meeting with the department of justice with some suggestion what the agency should be doing in the aftermath of this controversial case. we ll play you some of that. they are talking about trayvon martin. they haven t gotten to the other stuff yet, explaining what you guys already know about doj investigating and it s members asking questions. what are your concerns and what maybe doj should be looking at after the martin verdict? i just want them to look at the whole case from soup to